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 was received in the army with extraordinary marks of joy, and his gallant behaviour rewarded with a purse of 300 pounds by the Earl of Essex. But that General beginning to press the Scots Covenant upon his followers, the Captain left him, and going to the army newly raised, under the Earl of Manchester in 1643, obtained from him a commission on the 7th of October that year , for a Major of foot in the regiment commanded by Colonel Edward King, Governor of Boston in Lincolnshire. The Major was diligent in putting that garrison into a good state of defence, and very narrowly escaped with his life at raising the siege at Newark, by Prince Rupert. He had quarrelled with his Colonel some time before, and proceeding to lay several accusations against him before the General. His Lordship removed the Major from Boston, and made him Lieu-